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Gelsinger will replace current Intel CEO Bob Swan, who is set to retire on Feb. 15. Read more.

A former SoftBank employee and current employee of Rakuten Mobile was arrested for allegedly stealing SoftBank's data and then sharing that information with Rakuten. Read more.

The vendor claims that Armis Asset Management can see about five-times more assets compared to standalone endpoint detection and response, configuration, and vulnerability management tools. Read more.

More than half of containers are running as root, which Sysdig's Loris Degioanni identified as “the most alarming finding” from the report. Read more.

Ciena's Adaptive IP platform will help Consolidated Communications support 5G deployments. Meanwhile Indian network operator Lightstorm plans to use the vendor's 800 Gb/s optics. Read more.

"Our goal with 21c is to support of any data type, workload, and data model within the same database engine," Oracle's Jenny Tsai-Smith said. Read more.

The general consensus among pundits and analysts is that CEO Pat Gelsinger’s departure doesn’t bode well for VMware — at least in the short term. Read more.